How ya doing handling those sibling conflicts that seem to occur 500 times a day?!

What's your kneejerk reaction to the thought of parenting teens?  If it's not positive, have you thought through why not?

Are you parenting with the long-game perspective knowing that one day you will be launching your arrows into the world?

What does it mean to be in fellowship with our children even in times of discipline?

Chew through the last bit of the book, "Loving the Little Years; Motherhood in the Trenches" by Rachel Jankovic with Erin and Braxton.

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Are you allowing your children to grow and change you or are you resistant to being stretched?

Do you fall into the temptation to make your child fit into a certain kind of bubble, only fostering gifts that you yourself are good at?

How can we see the underlying virtues that are so often present in the “vices” and misbehaviors and how can we work to cultivate those in each of our children?

How do I "well-insulate" myself to take the blows of unregulated and unruly little people to be the calm & peace they need in their storms?

Sifting through all these questions as we look at chapters 13-15 of “Loving the Little Years; Motherhood in the Trenches” by Rachel Jankovic 

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How well are you leading your flock?

Do you fall into the trap that if things are looking pretty decent on the outside (think organization and obedience), then all is well?

Shepherding our children’s hearts should be top priority in motherhood, but are we tuned in enough to each of our “sheep” to know how to do this well?

We talk today about all of this plus mountains/molehills, identity shifts when we become moms, and even body image!

Join us as we continue to sift through “Loving the Little Years; Motherhood in the Trenches” by Rachel Jankovic. 

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• Adopting an attitude of gratitude in the hard and the messy.
• The power words have both in children and us as moms.
• The "bulk effect" and the challenge of not unloading our stress onto our children.

Erin & Braxton are back with more summaries and big takeaways in chapters 7-9 from Rachel Jankovic's "Loving the Little Years; Motherhood in the Trenches."

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• The opportunities in front of us each day to allow God to grow fruit in us.
• Raising our kids to be emotionally strong.
• Trusting God with the fruits of our labor.

Erin & Braxton are back with more summaries and big takeaways in chapters 4-6 from Rachel Jankovic's "Loving the Little Years; Motherhood in the Trenches."

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Evaluating our mom attitudes.
The everyday challenges we face that produce good fruit and sanctification.
Handling sibling conflict and the mirror that parenting holds up to us moms.

We're kicking of our Summer Book Series as Erin & Braxton ping-pong their big takeaways and ah-ha moments from chapters 1-3 of Rachel Jankovic's "Loving the Little Years, Motherhood In the Trenches," a must read for moms with children of all ages.

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https://www.christianbook.com/loving-the-little-years-motherhood-trenches/rachel-jankovic/9781591280811/pd/227568?event=ESRCG

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Would you consider yourself an avid reader?  Or have you struggled to make the time to read daily in the business of mom life?  You’re in good company no matter where you fall because we are listening to a conversation between two moms who represent each of these camps! Wannabe reader Erin sits down with returning guest Braxton, who has mastered making time to pick up books as an everyday part of her day as a busy working mom.  You’ll hear what she does and does NOT do to make this work as well as a variety of books she has read that have risen to the top of her must have favorites.

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Looking to chew through a mom-focused book this summer?  Join us for our TMC Summer Reading Series as we read together the equal parts convicting, encouraging and hilarious “Loving the Little Years: Motherhood in the Trenches” by Rachel Jankovic.  Erin and Braxton are introducing their seven part series as they take a few chapters at a time of this little book and discuss as it relates to their own motherhood experiences. You’ll feel so seen as you join our discussions!

Looking for mom community this summer?  Start your own Moms and Muffins Morning!  Grab some mamas, plop on your couches and sift through this book together while you as a leader get to use our weekly discussions on the podcast to help you frame your morning.  We’ll all be able to close the chapter on Summer 2024 having read ourselves to a brighter and more Jesus focused mission of motherhood!

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Book Mentions
“Mere Christianity” C.S. Lewis
“10,000 Gifts” Ann Voscamp
“Giddy UP, Eunice” Sophie Hudson
“A Little Salty to Cut the Sweet” Sophie Hudson
“Jesus the King” Timothy Keller
“The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert” Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
“Gentle and Lowly” Dane Ortlund

In-law relationships can be some of the trickiest to navigate and in today’s culture it’s been normalized to think of these relationships as sure to be cold and unfruitful. So how do we moms think ahead to the future when inevitably *we* will be someone’s Mother-In-Law someday? Listen to our conversation with Erin Hibbard and you will hear boundless wisdom in regards to how she was intentional to build meaningful relationships with the ladies she calls her Daughters-In-Love. Consider your MIL to be a bit prickly? Erin offers healthy advice to help us moms traverse that relationship. So much encouragement for us moms to sift through on today’s episode!

What do your conversations with God sound like?  Do you find yourself stuck in a repetitive, mundane, broken record kind of prayer life? Do struggle sometimes to find the words to express what’s on your heart?  Are you finding it difficult to breakaway from self-consumed prayers?

There is a perfect answer, resource and no-fail guide to all of this...SCRIPTURE! We're going to talk through why Scripture is an important tool to use in our prayer lives, how we can do this, what this looks like by working through an example, and some practicals that we busy moms can use today  to take our prayer lives to the next level.

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We can be tempted to make one excuse after the other to avoid putting the work in to get heathy...both physically and spiritually.  Today you'll get inspired and motivated with action steps from Jennifer Wells Sherwood, a mom who has made faith, family and fitness not just a mantra, but the heartbeat of her lifestyle.  Soak in her wisdom and share with a mom friend who you know needs to hear this encouragement!

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